Supporting Monolingual and Multilingual Children’s Phonological Development
Course: #10849Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 3331 Reviews
By age 5, most children worldwide have acquired most consonants, vowels (and tones), and are intelligible. Respectful assessments that analyze children’s speech in all their home languages, and consider standard and dialect forms relevant to the child’s family, are described in this course. Free, evidence-based resources to support SLPs working with monolingual and multilingual children are also shared.
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Course Type: Video
CEUs/Hours Offered: AG Bell - LSLS/1.0 Domain 3, Domain 4; ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; Calif SLPAB/1.0; IACET/0.1; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe typical speech development across languages and English dialects.
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss perspectives relating to “correct” production, taking standard and dialect forms into consideration.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify at least two resources for information regarding monolingual and multilingual children’s speech development.
Course created on February 20, 2024
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Children’s speech development: English from around the world |
| 15-20 Minutes | Children’s Speech Development: Standard American English |
| 20-25 Minutes | Children’s Speech Development: Other Languages |
| 25-30 Minutes | Children’s Intelligibility: World languages |
| 30-55 Minutes | Defining “correct” production for speech assessment and analysis |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q&A |
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3331 ReviewsPresented By
Sharynne McLeod
PhD FASSA, FRSN, SPA Life Member, ASHA Honors, CPSP, Board Certified Specialist-Child Language
Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is President of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association and a Board Certified Member of the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders. She served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and has won Editors’ Awards from Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing: Speech, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and Topics in Language Disorders. She has co-authored 12 books and 250+ peer reviewed journal articles and chapters primarily focusing on children’s speech acquisition, speech sound disorders, and multilingualism. She has advocated for communication rights at the United Nations and the World Health Organization. The Australian Newspaper named her Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024) and Best in the World based on the “quality, volume and impact” of research in the field (2019, 2023).
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